Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!daemon From: relph@PRESTO.IG.COM (John M. Relph) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: The Dreaming (Gospel Truth) Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 89 01:43:38 GMT Sender: daemon@eddie.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: MIT Lines: 34 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu cheung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (rich) sez (and I know it was eons ago): > > However, even gods are not >perfect and her mistake happens to be ............. The Dreaming. I >can't understand what you people see or hear in this album. I don't >even consider it music - it's that bad. To which ?>oug sez: > [ Repent, sinner! Repent! *The Dreaming* is the one true word of > God... etc. Yea, verily. Actually, I heard two or three songs by Kate Bush when I was in Ireland in 1979 and 1980. I had never heard of her before, but found the video for "Wow" interesting, and found the video for "Breathing" quite good. When I came back to the states I heard a Pat Benatar song that made me jump. Sure enough, when I looked at the credits it was a Kate Bush song -- "Wuthering Heights". I bought the single of "Breathing" and played it some, and it was good. But I didn't really think about Kate's music much, and didn't listen for it on the radio, nor did I buy her albums. But one day I saw _The Dreaming_ for sale cheap at a used record store (it was a cutout), so I bought it, what the heck. And boy, was it ever weird. Weirder than Peter Gabriel. Very Weird. Yeah. But I played it again. And again. And it got better every time. I must have played that album once or more per day for a couple of months. Wow. I don't do that with albums very often. What a great album. And now I'm hooked. And it's still her best. Side two of _Hounds of Love_ is pretty incredible, though. And the "Meteorological Mix" is the best twelve inch I've laid my hands on. Play it. Loud. LOUD. FUCKING LOUD. Sorry, rambled a bit. Anyway. XTC is better than Kate. -- John